Meaning

13 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.

    This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.

    кодkod

    кодkod

  2. (countable, uncountable)A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.

    Kodex, Gesetzbuch

    ко́дексkódɛks, уста́вustáv

    ко́дексkódeks

    a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)

  3. (countable, uncountable)Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.

    The medical code is a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians.

    The naval code is a system of rules for making communications at sea by means of signals.

    Kodex

    ко́дексkódɛks

    ко́дексkódeks

  4. (countable, uncountable)A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.

  5. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.

    (countable, synecdoche, uncountable)A codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.

    The ASCII code of "A" is 65.

  6. (countable, uncountable)A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.

  7. (countable, uncountable)A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.

    кодkod, шифрšifr

    кодkod, шифрšyfr

  8. (uncountable)Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.

    Object-oriented C++ code is easier to understand for a human than C code.

    I wrote some code to reformat text documents.

    Code, Kode

    кодkod

    кодkod

  9. (countable, uncountable)A program.

  10. (countable, uncountable)A particular lect or language variety.

  11. (countable, uncountable)An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.

  12. (countable, informal, uncountable)A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.

    girl code

Examples

321 sentences
  1. This code wasn't written very well.

    Цей код не було дуже добре написано.

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  2. Why is my code not working?

    Чому мій код не працює?

    ruПочему мой код не работает?

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  3. This code needs to be rewritten.

    Цей код треба переписати.

    ruЭтот код надо переписать.

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  4. Don't forget to write the zip code.

    Не забудь указати індекс.

    ruНе забудь написать индекс.

    deVergiss nicht, die Postleitzahl anzugeben!

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  5. What's your zip code?

    Який твій поштовий індекс?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
set of rules for converting information:
body of law:
cryptographic system:
Русский
By meaning 3
set of rules for converting information:
body of law:
cryptographic system:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
set of rules for converting information:
body of law:

Origin

From Middle English code (“system of law”), from Old French code (“system of law”), from L

From Middle English code (“system of law”), from Old French code (“system of law”), from Latin cōdex, later form of caudex (“the stock or stem of a tree, a board or tablet of wood smeared over with wax, on which the ancients originally wrote; hence, a book, a writing.”). Doublet of codex.

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Forms

plural: codes
Singularcode
Pluralcodes

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions:computer code
  • a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones):codification

Word family

208 related words

See also

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